Meditation In Everyday Life: 5 Week Course

By making a deep connection to the present moment and understanding our mind through the practice of meditation, we learn to make friends with ourselves.

Meditation in Everyday Life is a 5-week course that teaches mindfulness meditation and shows us how this practice can improve our daily lives in the most practical sense. We experience what happens when we stop avoiding ourselves and the present moment and practice simply being with whatever is going on in our lives. We learn to cultivate courage and stability in the daily complexities of jobs, responsibilities, relationships, and the everyday desires, concerns and uncertainties we all face. This is the 1st class in the Way of Shambhala curriculum. It offers a glimpse of the Shambhala vision of an enlightened society created through mindfulness-awareness meditation. And how the stability and wisdom cultivated through this practice can expand to benefit the world around us.

Class description:

Class 1: Introduction to Meditation: Basic Goodness and Becoming Familiar with Equanimity
Class 2: Using Mindfulness and Awareness to Gather the Mind and Work with Emotions
Class 3: Overcoming the Obstacles to Meditation
Class 4: Willing to Open: The Genuine Heart
Class 5: Meditation as a Transformational Tool for Society

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Thanks for the question… Lodro Rinzler and Katherine Lieberson will be teaching the daytime course coming up Jan 17th- Feb 14th. Below are their bios… feel free to send in any other questions you might have. Looking forward to seeing you there!

“Over the last decade Lodro Rinzler has taught numerous workshops at meditation centers and college campuses throughout the United States. He currently serves as the Head of Development for Shambhala International and Lodro’s book, The Buddha Walks into a Bar: A Guide to Life for a New Generation, will be released by Shambhala Publications in January 2012. His Buddhist advice column, What Would Sid Do, appears in the Huffington Post each month.”

“Katherine Lieberson is a second-generation Shambhala Buddhist. She received her Master’s degree in Indo-Tibetan Buddhism from Naropa University and teaches within the Shambhala community. She was the former Co-Director of the Shambhala Meditation Center of New York and is currently serving in the Office of Culture and Decorum. She is a member of the band TEEN and enjoys doing calligraphy in her spare time…”